Takahiro YOKOTA

He has extensive experience handling complex transactions, such as global IPOs and follow-on offerings, private investments in public companies (PIPEs), convertible bonds offerings, debt offerings, and other transactions of class shares, warrants, convertible bonds, and bonds. His involvement in numerous high-profile IPO projects, together with his secondment to the IPO division at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd., has strengthened his practical expertise and capabilities in Japanese IPOs.

He advises clients regarding financial regulations, including disclosure requirements under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Tokyo Stock Exchange rules, and insider trading regulations. He also has experience in a broad range of cross-border matters, including both inbound and outbound transactions.

He was seconded to Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. (IPO Division) from 2019 to 2021 and worked as an international associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s New York office from 2022 to 2023. He graduated from New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Corporation Law), Waseda Law School (J.D.), and Tokyo Metropolitan University (LL.B.).

He is admitted to practice in Japan and is a qualified lawyer in New York.